Walt wrote:
Well, I've at least heard of Durham, and while it's not a big city, I
doubt that the editor of the newspaper is so glad to get any letters at
all that he'll print *anything*. Rock Hill is... well... not so large.
Not that there's anything wrong with small towns, it's just that the
local papers can't afford to be as picky about what letters they print.

I dunno, the papers here will print a wide range of whacko stuff, but a
lot of it is about college basketball. The Durham and Raleigh papers
both have a conservative slant (more accurately, the Durham Herald-Sun
is merely pro-Bush/Cheney, the Raleigh N&O is actually conservative).

Not too long ago they were publishing a series of letters from a
Bush/Cheney cheerleader who seems to think that Clinton is still in
power, in some murky underworld way. Among other things, this person has
claimed that not one Iraqi or Afghan citizen has been harmed by U.S.
military action, whereas Clinton's nefarious scheming has killed
millions of Americans. I wish I were making this up.




But it's still nonsense. One small
town newspaper I used to read had regular letters to the editor from two
citizens carrying on a public argument about UFOs. The capper was when
one of them claimed that UFOs were responsible for her pet's
incontinence.


What's far fetched about that? I know I'd be incontinent if I saw a
UFO. Wouldn't anybody?

Did I say it was farfetched? It was the *truth*, man!

BTW small town gossip... one of the UFOers kids was the towns biggest
drug dealer... I always wondered if it was cause & effect, and if so,
which one was the cause and which was the effect...

DSK